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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 4 Jul 2010 03:03 Now, curiously enough, this new axiom appended to the existing Peano Axioms strengthens the Natural Numbers as defined by those axioms. New Axiom: define finite-Natural Number as all less than 10^500 (the largest meaningful number in physics) and define infinite Natural Number as all those equal to or larger than 10^500. So curiously, we find that this new axiom when appended to the old Peano axioms does not upset or disturb the existing lot. However, in the program of building the Rationals and then the Reals, well, we get into a huge fight because many of the concepts in the Rationals and Reals are untenable. Perhaps the best news of this new axiom is that of our methods of proof in mathematics hinges more on brute calculations rather than some clever trick such as "multiply the lot and add 1" in infinitude of primes. That is where Perfect Numbers, Twin Primes, Goldbach, FLT, Riemann Hypothesis will be proven in going through all the numbers to 10^500. Beyond 10^500 is meaningless in physics. You cannot measure beyond it; you cannot count to it; you cannot experiment beyond it. So if physics can never do anything with numbers larger than 10^500, it is rather absurd to think that some mathematician sipping coffee in ivory towers has meaning for numbers larger than 10^500. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |